Easel



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',jEAsEL.

Applicationfiiled December 16, 1919. y Serial No. 345,249.

To all whom it may concern.' Y p Be it known that I, AARON llnnMANsoN,

a citizenof the United States, residing at Rockford, in the ycounty ofl/Vinneba'go, State of Illinois, have invented a V'newand useful Easel.;and I do hereby declare the following to be ay full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as 'will enable. others skilled inthe art to which;

it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to easels and has for its object to'provideaneasel formed from wire and particularly adapted for supporting a smallglass and so formed as to hold a picture in engagement withsaid glass. f

A further object is to provide an easel comprising a substantiallyrectangular shaped glass engaging and holding member said rectangularshaped member having pivotally secured to the upper end thereof aU-shaped member, the tree end of which4 being adapted to engage thesupport for supporting the easel, there being a brace pivotally securedto the lower end of the rectangular 'frame and formed from a singlepiece of wire, the ends of said wire being provided with eyes slidablyengaging the U-Shaped member and limited in the'irg downward movementsby offset portions carried by said U-shaped member.

With thel above and other objects in view the invention resides in thecombination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown inthe drawings, described and claimed, it being understood that changes inthe precise embodiment ot' the invention be Vmade within the scope ofwhat is claimed without departing from the spirit of the in vention.

Injthe drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of the easel showing thesame supporting a glass.

Fig. 2'is a rear view of the easel showing the same in folded position.

Fig. 3 is a collective view of the three Y membersforming the easel.

Referring to the drawings, the numerall `Vl designates a rectangularshaped frame the upper edge of the glass.

formed from a single pieceot wire, said ywire being bent upon itself asat 2 and 3 so as to form a centrally disposed glass engaging hook ladapted to engage over The wire in turn being bent as at 5 so as to formhorizontal portions, said'horizontal portions be'- ing bent so as' toprovide (eyes Gv and de.`

pending larms 7." The arms 7 at points spaced from their'flowerv endsare bent upon themselves so, as tofiorm eyes v8, which form pivotalpointsjfra brace9, said arms'- 7 having their lower ends bent upwardlyso as to:v form'members 10 adapted to engagevover and receive'thelowe'rvend o lfthe glass 11.` "It will-beseenfthatthe rectangularframe'l is formed from asingle piece-ot -wire and that the member l isalso formed 1 Brace 9 isformed Vfrom a single piece' oli'r "wire andcomprises a substantially trans- Verselyfdis'posed portion 16, whichportion is bent `as at '17 so as to provide parallelpor.- tions 18, saidwire being in turn benty upon itself as at 19 thereby forming armsZOwhich are parallel Vto the portions 18, the benty portions 19 beingdisposedl in the eyesfS, which tormpivotal'points forV the brace'Q.

Arms 2O have their ends` vprovided withV eyes Q1 which eyes are slidablymounted on "l ,Snecetion Gf Lettersletnt Fatented Nov. 29,f'19l21., i

the arms 'of the U-shaped leg 17.3 and the slid" ing of said eyes in a ydownward position;

being limited by the shoulders 15er the 'leg 13. Thus 1t will be seenthatv the brace 9 at its outer endwill belimited in its downwardmovement and as the` shoulders 15 are so positioned so that said brace 9will not be able to assume a position at right angles to the frame l,that it will be only loo v necessary to force' the lower end of Vthe leg13 inwardly t0 cause"v the outer end or' thel brace' 9 tofslideupward-ly whichA will allow the folding of the ram'eas ka whole."

From the aboveitfwill beseen that an ease is providedV which easel visformed entirely from wire and thatfthe parts soitormed are reduced to aminimun. 'lt will also be 1101 seen that by the particularly lbent-bracemember 9, that the spreading oty the arm 7 of the frame 1 will bepreventedin an'outsaid brace cannot assume a right angle posileg.

tion to the frame l, thereby preventing the folding Vof the legmember 13by simply applying pressure to the free end or" said vThe inventionhaving been set forth what is claimed as new and useful is A wire easelformed from three substantially U-shaped members, one of said membershaving its ycentral horizontal portions provided with a hook adapted tohook over the upper end of an article, said hook being formed by bendingthe wire forming the member so as to form vertically disposed adjacentparallel portions, said vertically disposed parallel portions adjacent'the horizontal vportions vbeing' provided with outwardly extendingbends, a loopv extending around the vertically disposed` portionsbetween the outwardly extending bends and the horizontallydisposedportions for hold-v ing said vertically disposed portionsagainst spreading, said bent out portions forming means for preventinglongitudinal move lbeing provided witholset portions, the

other U-shaped wire member having its arms slidably mounted andconnected to the arms of the supporting U-shaped member and at pointsabove its oifset portions which form limiting stops, said last namedU-shaped member being pivotally connected `to the downwardly extendingarms of the Y lirst mentioned article receiving U-shape'd member andforming means for bracing and holding the supporting member. l

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

AARON HERMANSON,

Witnesses i E. A. NELSON, CARL BENeTsoN.

